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Bain & Company · AI Strategy San Francisco Bay Area UC Berkeley · Haas · BS ’26 9 / 13 case competition wins

Ahad Khot.

I work where strategy meets product. Today, AI strategy at Bain. Before that, product at Amazon, Tesla, Cisco and Uber, and a few companies built with friends along the way.

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§ 01

Past projects

Companies I helped start with friends at and after Berkeley.

Peppin / iMessagepeppin.ai ↗
Peppin in iMessage: a run is logged, then an acai bowl photo comes back with protein, fiber and calories Peppin in iMessage: a workout logged, then a wrap photo estimated at about 39g protein

Peppin

P—01Co-Founder

A habit companion you text in iMessage. Log by message or photo; a penguin grows as you keep your streak.

  • Launched with real users, Stripe billing and meal-photo macros
  • Deterministic pre-classifier and safety canaries gate every LLM call
  • 650 commits, 88 migrations and 200+ test files in 6 weeks
521Conversations logged
81%Replied again
65%Set a habit
6 wksTo launch
BSG CRMPipeline · names blurred
BSG CRM pipeline board with account names blurred

Berkeley Strategy Group

P—02Co-Founder

A student-founded strategy group focused on AI strategy and voice of the customer.

  • Owned client relationships end to end
  • Led conversations with F500 VPs and C-suite
  • Built a custom CRM to run the pipeline
50+Client relationships
100+Exec intros
300+Exec 1:1s
7Team
BoiYour year in messages
Boi share card: 38% of your 16 closest friendships went quiet this year

Boi

P—03Co-Founder

An AI assistant inside iMessage that reads the room, so you always know who is waiting on you.

  • Texts you who is waiting on a reply, with two drafts in your voice
  • Notarized Mac app reads iMessage read-only; uploads summaries, never messages
  • 14-tool agent loop on Fastify and Postgres; closed beta with real testers
487Commits in 20 days
85K+Lines of code
1,700Tests
3Languages
Anthology venture studio site: Golden Gate Bridge and Burj Khalifa sketches
anthologyvm.comVisit ↗

Anthology

P—04Co-Founder

A venture studio for San Francisco × Dubai, building ventures at the intersection of strategy and technology.

  • Started in 2026 across two of the world’s fastest-moving markets
  • Designed and shipped the studio’s brand and site at anthologyvm.com
SF37.77° N 122.42° W
DXB25.20° N 55.27° E
2026Founded
×Strategy and tech
§ 02

Experience

Consulting and product across AI strategy, consumer, and enterprise tech.

Bain & Company
ConsultingAI Strategy
Aug 2026 — Now
Working with Fortune 500 C-suites to define AI strategy, pick the use cases worth funding, and turn them into implementation plans that deliver.
NowSan Francisco
Amazon
ProductPrime Video
May — Aug 2026
Built a multi-KPI benchmarking index across 10+ satellite and telecom partners and a segmentation framework used in business reviews. Root-caused enterprise billing anomalies.
−15%Escalation rate
Bain & Company
ConsultingAI Strategy · Summer
Jun — Aug 2025
Summer associate in the Technology practice, working on AI strategy and transformation for enterprise technology clients.
’25Summer associate
Tesla
ProductEnterprise Tech
Jun — Aug 2024
Led 5+ engineers through 10+ features on Tesla’s in-house ERP. Drove the LLM integration for AI ticket suggestions, saving 10K+ user hours, and cut error-ticket sources 30%.
140K+Employees served
Cisco
ProductEnterprise Deployments
Mar — May 2024
Led a 7-person team on IoT strategy for 5+ US campuses, built on 40+ expert calls and 1M+ user activity datapoints.
1M+Datapoints
Uber
ProductUber for Teens
Jan — Jul 2023
Took Uber for Teens from idea to a new vertical in the Family suite. Beat engagement targets and earned coverage in TechCrunch, WSJ and The Verge.
50K+Users
§ 03

Record

Case competitions sponsored by Deloitte, PwC, Microsoft, Bain, Morgan Stanley and Capital One.

9/13

First-place finishes across thirteen competitions entered.

Berkeley Haas · Feature ↗ Passing the baton: case competition winner Ahad Khot mentors the next generation of Haas leaders
  1. 1stTiger Global × PwC Global Case CompetitionGlobal
  2. 1stMicrosoft National Case CompetitionNational
  3. 1stUber Global HackathonGlobal
  4. 1stL.E.K. Consulting Case CompetitionCase
  5. 1stMorgan Stanley Case-a-thonCase
  6. 1stLucid Motors Case CompetitionCase
  7. 1stBeyond Meat Case CompetitionCase
  8. 1stNexus Case CompetitionCase
  9. 1stSCET Pitch CompetitionPitch
  10. 2ndGeorgetown CET Pitch CompetitionPitch
  11. 3rdCapital One × UPenn National Case CompetitionNational
  12. 3rdDeloitte × Berkeley Haas Case CompetitionCase
  13. 4thMarshall International Case CompetitionInternational
§ 04

Berkeley

What I built and led on campus, beyond the coursework.

Founder & Managing Director · 2022–2026

Berkeley Product Management Association

Founded a product consulting club that partnered with Microsoft, Salesforce, DoorDash, Google, Capital One and Uber, and taught three courses at Berkeley’s entrepreneurship center: Product Management, Advanced PM and AI Startups.

$300K+Raised
10+Client projects
3Courses taught
5×URM growth
Education

UC Berkeley, Haas

BS Business Administration, with Economics and a data science focus. Class of 2026.

Member

Berkeley Applied AI Solutions

Applied AI work for companies, from scoping to a working prototype.

Competitor

Haas Case Competition Team

Represented Haas in Thailand and at USC.

VP, Corporate Relations

Haas Business Student Association

Ran corporate partnerships for Haas’s undergraduate student body.

VP, Consulting

Muslim Business Association

Led the association’s consulting work with partner organizations.

Pro bono

McKinsey × Social Sector Solutions

Strategy work for social-sector organizations alongside McKinsey.

Off the clock

2× Youth Chess Champion

Top 0.001%. Also a career goalkeeper, 40+ countries and 10+ national parks.

§ 05

Say hello

AI strategy, product, or something you’re building. I read everything.

ahad.khot@berkeley.edu
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